September 9, 2008
June 26, 2008
Movie review: You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
Hilarious. Chock full of Adam Sandler’s typical bathroom jokes and 80s-centric humor, this movie (Flash heavy site) won’t disappoint his enormous day-to-day fan base. But the movie is also packed with tons of audience-specific gags that are only truly funny if you a) speak decent colloquial Hebrew, b) spent time in Israel in the 80s and early 90s, c) are otherwise familiar with Israeli culture, d) are familiar with the NY Israeli scene, or e) all of the above. Jenn and I laughed nonstop, but there were definitely lots of moments that we looked at each other and thought, “Is anyone else getting this?”
To give you a taste, check out this old SNL sketch, which undoubtedly helped germinate Zohan:
There are several motifs at play in that bit that appear, in more or less polished form, in Zohan.
Wait, did I just refer to “motifs” while talking about an Adam Sandler comedy? BWAHAHAHAHA!
Go see it. There are a lot of fun cameos, there’s even a nice underlying message, and you’ll laugh a bunch. It’ll be good for you.
April 24, 2008
The Onion takes on the latest US-Israel espionage story
I’ve only caught snippets of the story, since I don’t always hear the entire news broadcasts at the top of the hour from Israel while listening to Reshet Gimmel, but I got the gist of it from this brief review, courtesy of The Onion:
February 15, 2008
Cyanide & Happiness strikes again
I mentioned this webcomic once or twice before, always noting that it’s sick and twisted and usually hilarious. But today’s smack at one of the election’s hot button topic is truly…well, look:
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
February 8, 2008
Blasphemy has never been so funny.
The thing about Israelis is, they we are equal opportunity offenders.
Christians? No problem:
If Mary had been a modern Israeli woman (5 MB WMV download)
Chasidic and other ultra-orthodox Jews? We got you covered:
I’m sure there’s plenty of stuff out there to cover Muslims and others, too, but I’ll leave it to others to find (and point me to, of course).
What do we want? CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!
Who’s gonna make it happen? EVERYBODY!
…
well, at least I know that when I go to Washington I’ll be able to get some change.